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Tables of Contents for Chinese Fossil Vertebrates
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
6
Political Divisions of China
1
1
Geological Setting
1
2
Vertebrate Biochronology
3
2
Some Features of This Book
5
2
History of Vertebrate Paleontological Studies
7
24
Basalla's Model
8
1
Ancient Chinese Observations on Fossil Vertebrates
8
2
Dragon Bones: Nineteenth-Century Western Paleontology and China's Vertebrate Fossils
10
1
Johan Gunnar Andersson and the Lagrelius Collection
11
2
Otto Zadnsky
13
5
Black, Bohlin, and Zhoukoudian
18
2
End of the Sino-Swedish Paleontological Program
20
2
The Central Asiatic Expeditions
22
3
The 1920s-1930s: Foreign Vertebrate Paleontologists Living in China
25
1
C.C. Young and Minchen Chow
26
1
The IVPP
26
3
New Collaboration
29
1
The Three-Stage Model
29
2
Cambrian-Silurian
31
16
Silurian Vertebrate-Producing Starta
32
3
Early Silurian---Dayongaspis Biochron
35
1
Early Middle Silurian---Hanyangaspis Biochron
36
3
Late Middle Silurian---Sinogalaeaspis Biochron
39
2
Late Silurian---Nostolepis Biochron
41
1
China's Oldest Vertebrates
42
2
Silurian Vertebrate Biochronology
44
1
Silurian Vertebrate Paleobiogeography
44
3
Devonian
47
18
Devonian Vertebrate-Producing Strata
48
3
Early Devonian---Yunnanolepis Biochron
51
4
Early Devonian Paleocommunities
55
2
Middle Devonian---Bothriolepis Biochron
57
1
Late Devonian---Remigolepis Biochron
58
2
Systematics of Devonian Agnathans
60
2
Diabolepis and Lungfish Phylogeny
62
2
Devonian Vertebrate Biogeography
64
1
Carboniferous
65
6
Carboniferous Vertebrate Occurrences
67
1
Acanthodes
67
2
Chondrichthyans
69
1
Heliocoprionid from Xinjiang
70
1
Prospectus
70
1
Permian
71
18
Permian Nonmarine Strata in the Junggur and Ordos Basins
72
4
Urumqia
76
1
Turfania and Yaomoshania
77
1
The Dashankou Locality
77
1
Pareiasaur Fauna
78
3
Dicynodon Fauna
81
4
The Dicynodon Biochron
85
4
Triassic
89
32
Junggur Basin
90
2
Ordos Basin
92
3
Jimsarian Vertebrates
95
2
Fuguan Vertebrates
97
3
Ordosian Vertebrates
100
2
Ningwuan Vertebrates
102
2
Fukang Fauna
104
3
Chinese Triassic Dicynodonts
107
4
The ``Nine-Dragon Wall''
111
1
Lotosaurus
112
1
Triassic Fishes
113
2
Triassic Marine Reptiles
115
4
Chinese Triassic Tetrapods, Pangea,and Facies
119
2
Jurassic
121
36
Sichuan Basin
122
2
Other Jurassic Basins
124
3
Dawan Vertebrates
127
10
Global Correlation of the Dawan
137
1
Dashanpuan Vertebrates
138
3
Tuojiangian Vertebrates
141
2
Ningjiagouan Vertebrates
143
5
Jurassic Fishes
148
1
Jurassic Dinosaur Footprints
149
1
Chinese Tritylodonitds
149
3
Chinese Jurassic Mammals
152
1
Chinese Jurassic Dinosaurs
153
4
Cretaceous
157
38
Vertebrate-Bearing Strata
158
2
Land-Vertebrate Faunachrons
160
1
Tsagantsabian Vertebrates
161
7
The Psittacosaurus Biochron
168
2
Khukhtekian Vertebrates
170
2
Age of the Liaoning Birds
172
2
Chinese Early Cretaceous Birds and Avian Origins
174
2
Baynshirenian Vertebrates
176
2
Djadokhtan Vertebrates
178
1
Nemegtian Vertebrates
179
4
Cretaceous Fishes
183
1
Ceratopsian Evolution
184
1
Chinese Cretaceous Dinosaur Eggs
184
6
Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary and Extinctions
190
4
Two Vertebrate Faunas
194
1
Paleogene
195
38
Paleogene Vertebrate-Bearing Deposits
195
1
Paleogene Land-Mammal``Ages''
196
9
Shanghuan Mammals
205
4
Nongshanian Mammals
209
3
Bumbanian Mammals
212
1
Arshantan and Irdinmanhan Mammals
213
5
Sharamurunian Mammals
218
2
Ergilian Mammals
220
1
Shandgolian Mammals
220
2
Tabenbulukian Mammals
222
1
Paleogene Rodent Evolution
223
1
Indricothere Evolution
224
1
Paleeogne Lower Vertebrates
225
4
Paleogene Birds
229
1
Paleoplacentals and Neoplacentals
230
3
Miocene-Pliocene
233
26
Miocene-Pliocene Vertebrate-Bearing Strata
233
3
Miocene-Pliocene Land-Mammal ``Ages''
236
1
Xiejian Mammals
236
2
Shanwangian Mammals
238
2
Tunggurian Mammals
240
2
Bahean Mammals
242
1
Baodean Mammals
243
2
Jinglean Mammals
245
3
Youhean Mammals
248
1
Forest and Steppe Faunas
248
1
Proboscidean Evolution
249
2
Hipparion First-Appearance Datum
251
1
Chinese Miocene-Pliocene Apes
251
1
Miocene-Pliocene Lower Vertebrates
252
3
Miocene-Pliocene Birds
255
1
Paleozoogeography
256
3
Pleistocene
259
32
Pleistocene Vertebrate-Bearing Deposits
260
4
Nihewanian Land-Mammal ``Age''
264
1
Pleistocene Mammals of Northern China
265
12
Pleistocene Mammals of Southern China
277
2
Pleistocene Mammals of the Transition Zone
279
1
Gigantophecus
279
1
Fossil Homo
280
2
Zhoukoudian
282
6
Pleistocene Mammoths
288
1
Pleistocene Lower Vertebrates
288
1
Pleistocene Birds
288
1
Origin of China's Extant Vertebrates
289
2
Summary
291
6
History of Vertebrate Paleontology in China
291
1
Cambrian-Ordovician
291
1
Silurian
291
1
Devonian
292
1
Carboniferous
292
1
Permian
292
1
Triassic
293
1
Jurassic
293
1
Cretaceous
294
1
Paleogene
294
1
Miocene-Pliocene
294
1
Pleistocene
295
2
References
297
48
Index
345
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